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Danny Clark (QB Kentucky Wildcats, transfer to Vanderbilt)

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11W article: Great Expectations
"No pressure, no diamonds." - Some guy, somewhere, probably.

When you're the future of Ohio State football at quarterback, the pressure is very real. It's suffocating to anyone but the strongest personality and it has crushed more than its fair share of dreams. There's expectations that come with donning the scarlet and gray and taking the snaps in front of 106,000 people, both on and off the field.

There's a gravity to knowing that the hopes and dreams of millions of people rest on your ability to read a defense and make an accurate throw into coverage. Knowing the vicarious successes and failures of an entire state and one of the largest alumni bases in the country is a tall order, and it's certainly not for everyone.

Don't tell that to Massillon freshman quarterback Danny Clark. Don't tell that to Jeff Clark, Danny's father, either. This is exactly what the phenom ? dubbed "the Prototype" ? was made for, and the 6-foot-3, 205 pound 15-year old relishes the chance. He's working in earnest for a chance to become the starting quarterback on the varsity team at Massillon as a true freshman, an almost unheard of opportunity at one of the country's most recognizable high school programs. Playing football for the Tigers could be the best thing for him as he enters his high school career with immense pressures ? like the presumption that he'll be Ohio State's quarterback in 2017 ? because at Massillon football is a way of life. Football is life, and that's just fine with Danny Clark.

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Muck;2365274; said:
Massillon has a long tradition of holding back kids a year specifically for sports. I can't help but wonder if that is the case with Danny.
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I remember hearing about that, I think it was in the documentary, go tigers.
But for a 15yo to have such pressure in HS to become the next osu great, that's a ton of pressure to bestow on a kid that can't even drive yet. This is the Times we live in now
 
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Muck;2365274; said:
Massillon has a long tradition of holding back kids a year specifically for sports. I can't help but wonder if that is the case with Danny.
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It is more commonplace beyond Massillon and sports now. The official term is "redshirting" in non-sports too. There was a whole thing about it on 60 minutes or some other news show last year. A lot of it came out of the study of hockey players in Canada and correlation between when they were born and performance.
 
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I didn't mean to imply that it was a problem limited to Massilon (didn't it crop up in the Steubenville case?). I apologize if it came across that way. That being said it appears to be systematized at Massilon.
 
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Muck;2365274; said:
Massillon has a long tradition of holding back kids a year specifically for sports. I can't help but wonder if that is the case with Danny.
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It happens a lot around here (metro DC area) in basketball. So much so that the rules regarding reclassing and transferring between public and private schools have totally been revamped.
 
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